SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 2 - Early Student Movement Philosophy and Activism
About this title: While deep dissatisfaction was a major factor mobilizing the young people who would engage in direct action protests, often the first steps into activism led to a greater-than-anticipated commitment. David Dennis who would later be...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 20 - Black Power, Black Education and Pan Africanism
About this title: Throughout the ten years of its formal organizational existence, SNCC did a variety of things it felt necessary: sit-ins, freedom rides, campaigns aimed at the desegregation of public facilities, voter registration drives and the o...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 24 - Highlander, SSOC and Organizing in the White Community: "We Knew That We Were Not Free"
About this title: Though Black-led and powered by the energy of the Black population, Whites have always been part of the Southern Freedom Movement. Indeed, as all the panelists note, in its largest sense the southern struggle was not just for Black...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 31 - The Cradle to Prison Pipeline
About this title: "The one and only thing this nation guarantees our children is a prison bed if they get into trouble," says Crystal Mattison of the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School Program who can hardly hold back her tears. CDF numbers reve...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 6 - Luncheon Keynote: Rev. James Lawson, "We Have Not Yet Arrived"
About this title: At SNCC's founding conference in 1960 it was James Lawson who captured the political imagination of the students. Years before the 1960 gathering, Lawson was imprisoned for 14 months because of his conscientious objection to the Ko...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 17 - Luncheon Keynote: Harry Belafonte, "Why Can't Our Children Find Us?"
About this title: Rev. David Forbes, one of Raleigh's student sit-in leaders in 1960 opens this luncheon with a short political prayer. In formally welcoming attendees, Shaw University Interim President Dr. Dorothy Yancy recalls joining the sit-in m...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 18 - Ella Baker's Roots: "Give People Light and They Will Find a Way"
About this title: This panel examines the legacy of Ella Baker, the inspiration behind the original SNNC founding conference. Ella Baker was more than 30 years older than virtually everyone participating in SNCC's founding conference in 1960 yet her...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 28 - Luncheon Keynote: Congressman John Lewis, "Stand Up and Make Some Noise"
About this title: John Lewis, Chair of SNCC from 1963 to 1966, has been a member of Congress for 24 years. Jailed 40 times and badly beaten several times during civil rights protests, his congressional colleagues refer to him as "the Legend." As a s...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 32 - Actions for a New World
About this title: Members of this panel insist that SNCC continues to influence their work. "We know that not only policy must be changed," says Jonathan Lewis of the Gathering for Justice, "but the attitudes that support our work." Another panelist...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 7 - The Societal Response to SNCC
About this title: This panel and sudience discussion considers the complex response to SNCC by the general public and specific sections of society. The Kennedy Administration was deeply suspicious of SNCC but panelist John Doar, head of the Departme...